Exhibitors

The Post Office Vehicle Club was formed in 1962 by a group of people whose interest in the GPO fleet started between the wars and built up a detailed record of the then current Mail and Telephone fleets operated by the General Post Office. The members recorded vehicles sold out of GPO service. The preservation movement grew during the seventies and eighties. Over the years we have recorded around two hundred such vehicles known to be in the hands of preservationists, in varying states of restoration from “as found” (which can mean a pile of scrap metal) to better than the day it went into service. There has also been an increasing number of rallies where there is a special class for these vehicles, and of other events where we are asked to provide a vehicle presence. These displays highlight the appeal of the growing Post Office vehicle preservation movement. The GPO operated the largest commercial road transport fleet in the country – reaching a peak of 80,000 vehicles at the division of British Telecom and the Post Office in October 1981.

The Club can assist owners of former GPO vehicles, which missed the deadline of November 1983 to register them on the Swansea computer as we are authorised under the V765 scheme to recommend reissue of the original registrations.

We have extensive records of old vehicles and can, in many cases, give details of a vehicle’s operational area, its exemption number and when it was sold.